Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-12-19
Carl Dunder.

and KIND to ANIMALS.
Carl Dunder.
Sergeant, you know my boy |
Shaker" queried Mr.. Dunder as he
entered the Woodbridge Street sta
ton yesterday.
81 should say did :" forcibly re-
piled sergeant Bendal. sis Jake
dead?"
mo; he vhas runned AWAY
again
''You have lots of trouble with
Jake"
s'Dot vhas so, und I come down
to see you aboudt it. l think it all
oafer last night, und maybe it vhas
all my fault. l belief l vhas too
strict nit Shake. like to haf him
more like boy in Shermany, und
guess dot makes all der troubles.
Shake he like to be an American boy,
und so we doan get along all right.
Sergeant, l like to ask you if it vhas
all right for my boy Shake to speak
of me as der oldt mans?"
"Why, that is the expression com
monty used by boys of sixteen when
referring to their father"
''Vhas it? Vhell, l lick Shake
sefen times for dot, und l vhas sor-
ry. Vhas it righ if Shake haf some
boxing gloves in der parn?"
Il don't see any particular harm
in that"
'Vhell maype not, but / gif Shake
two lickings for dot. How vhas it
if Shake goes oudt eafery night und
shtays until elefen o'clock?"
l believe that most American bows
stay out until midnight
''Vhas dot so? Vhel, lick Shake
more ash twenty times for dot, und
haf to beg his pardon. Sergeant,
vhas she all right if Shake plays
poker p
'Poker is considered a very in
teresting game, and 1 guess all the
boys play it,
''Und when l catch Shake l lick
him How dot poor poy suffers I.
Sergeant, dere vhas one more ques-
ton. How vhas it if Shake bets
money on base ball und keeps a fight
ing dog?"
''That's young America, Mr.. Dun
der"
''Und all dis time l vhas wrong
und Shake vhas right, und vhas an
l-oldt fool p
"And so Jake has gomez
''He goes avhey last night. find
him nit game rooster in der parn,
und | gif him a good licking. vhas
wrong und he yhas right, ,and it preaks
his heart und he goes off. Sergeant?"
s.Well?"
81 like Shake TO come pack. If
you see him tell him so. Tell him
vhas sorry. vhas Wiling he should
pc like some odder boys in dis coun-
try. He can call me Oldt mans und
4 shall pc all right. He can bet on
some games and / doan' say word.
He CO. sing und l shall schmile. If
he sttays oudt all night nopody
shah kick. Goodbye sergeant. 1
vhas gting up NIT der papers und
| putgin some advertisement which
shall Ead
.,PEl3oNh.-If shake Dunder Will
retGTn = IRE distre-wed- parents it vhin
pc az right, und he shall pc boss und bar
some good times like he Iaapts 1854
-m&~- <1M@r
A Blind Man on Memory<s. -
From ssaasu, u,aaa6aun...s-rs-'frs frsr-%
y liar inrssld s11 brrTid 10 One of
their nrr1ber quote the following
flom TIE Century: "As partial com
l.pensation in ting midst Of his discouf-
hgements, thef sightless pupil pos
sesses one WAL advantage over his
companions. 4 dis memory, accustom-
ed to sieze aR assimiIate definitions,
and miscellaheous information at a
single hearing, acquires both mar
yellous alertness and a phenomenal
retentiye capacity which enable him
to.@saster certain branches Of study
witsrslngular ease and rapidity. De-
prived Of books and without any very
ready dffd.reliable method Of making
netes, be obtains a habit, often en-
We'd By the seeing, Of appropiiating
instantaneously anything addressed
/ to his &telIeetgthrongh his hearing.
J Hence the proysrbialIy good memory
Of the blind person. sIis mind Is biz
memOranilum-book, always at hand
and alw open.
To tm present writer, who never
remembers Of having lesson in any
thing lead over 70 him more than
twice, nothing Is more strange and
more nsing than room full u
school assidren, with fingers crammed
in their ears, buzzing over lesson
Of three pages for the fifteenth time.
Equally incomprehensible is il b see